[H]ard|OCP reviews MSI NX7300 GS TD256E GeForce 7300 GS video card
We haven't evaluated many "value" video cards here at [H]Enthusiast in quite a while. This isn't a category that hardcore gamers touch. With a total of 5 video card editors now on staff, we want to try and relate to a wider group of readers the gaming experience of video cards that scale from the low-end to the high-end.
It must be strictly understood that any video card under $100 is not going to perform like you are used to compared with mainstream or high-end video cards. These low price points are very appealing to many people looking for a video card for casual gaming and other activities.
The value-end video card segment in the past employed a mixed product status. GPUs of the past under $100 were stripped down in features. This practice dates back quite a while and the most famous example of this was the GeForce4 MX series which stripped the features of a programmable pixel and vertex shader that its bigger brother the GeForce4 Ti series had. Another recent example of this is the GeForce 6200 series of the last generation which stripped FP 16 HDR framebuffer support and Z compression support...
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